African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook

Richard W. Leeman

Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996 - Social Science - 452 pages

This long-needed sourcebook assesses the unique styles and themes of notable African-American orators from the mid-19th century to the present--of 43 representative public speakers, from W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesse Jackson to Barbara Jordan and Thurgood Marshall. The critical analyses of the oratory of a broad segment of different types of public speakers demonstrate how they have stressed the historical search for freedom, upheld American ideals while condemning discriminatory practices against African-Americans, and have spoken in behalf of black pride. This biographical dictionary with its evaluative essays, sources for further reading, and speech chronologies is designed for broad interdisciplinary use by students, teachers, activists, and general readers in college, university, institutional, and public libraries.

Contents

• Melbourne: xxv
• William Wells Brown: 6
• Shirley Anita St Hill Chisholm: 18
• Leroy Eldridge Cleaver: 28
• Anna Julia Cooper: 37
• Alexander Crummell: 47
• Angela Yvonne Davis: 56
• Father Divine: 67
• Frederick Douglass: 78
• William Edward Burghardt Du Bois: 94
• Marian Wright Edelman: 106
• Louis Abdul Farrakhan: 116
• Lenora Fulani: 130
• Henry Highland Garnet: 139
• Marcus Moziah Garvey: 147
• Francis James Grimke: 159
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: 167
• Benjamin Lawson Hooks: 177
• Jesse Louis Jackson: 188
• Vernon Johns: 197
• Barbara Charline Jordan: 203
• Martin Luther King Jr: 212
• John Robert Lewis: 222
• Louis E Lomax: 233
• Thurgood Marshall: 243
• Robert Parris Moses: 255
• Eleanor Holmes Norton: 264
• Adam Clayton Powell Jr: 270
• Colin Luther Powell: 278
• Asa Philip Randolph: 288
• Charles Lenox Remond: 296
• Maria W Miller Stewart: 305
• Mary Eliza Church Terrell: 312
• Sojourner Truth: 326
• Booker T Washington: 335
• Alyce Faye Wattleton: 352
• Ida Bell WellsBarnett: 361
• William Whipper: 369
• Lawrence Douglas Wilder: 378
• Fannie Barrier Williams: 387
• Walter Edward Williams: 394
• Malcolm X: 404
• Andrew Jackson Young: 417
• Index: 425
• About the Contributors: 439

Popular passages

Page 13 - ... -,—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.

About the author

RICHARD W. LEEMAN, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, teaches courses in rhetorical theory, political communication, and African-American oratory. He is the author of The Rhetoric of Terrorism (1991) and Do Everything Reform: The Oratory of Frances E. Willard (1992), both published by Greenwood Press.

Bibliographic information

• Title: African-American Orators: A Bio-critical Sourcebook; ABC-Clio ebook
• Editor: Richard W. Leeman
• Contributor: Bernard K. Duffy
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996
• ISBN: 0313290148, 9780313290145
• Length: 452 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General